Can’t find either the title or the year of painting.
Skrepetsky (Семён Скрепецкий) was a Russian [I assume, amateur] artist who painted grotesque neo-primitivist caricatures of modern Russia, and built up a bit of a fame online. He has been shot and killed yesterday in Biała Podlaska, Poland, where he has lived since 2021.
Im surprised this is considered amateur
By that I simply mean he has no formal training, which TBH was just my assumption, he seems to be completely outside the formal artistic sphere, and his art is spread mainly online.
Maybe amateur as in “doesn’t get paid for their art”?
More likely as in “has no formal education in art”
That would typically be called naïve art rather than amateur.
All artists are amateurs?
/I keed…
I would certainly associate his paintings with Naive art which can be both a result of lacking the formal educarion or a delibirate choice
Without context, I would assume the work is stylized.